Friday, March 28, 2008

5 times a day

Constantly checking our front and back for incoming trains. On the left the slum of Dharavi; primitive shacks, amazed faces and waving hands. Three railway tracks, two trains from the back, the middle one will remain clear, we are safe. I start filming the two trains passing by, left and right. Cool movie!
Something happened. A woman starts running whilst screaming to a spot a 100 metres in front of me. An older man got hit by the train. Not knowing what to do with ourselves we stand still for a minute. “We need to get going” says Amey, our Indian student. We walked by the group of mourning squatters that are carrying the body away. The girls are shocked. After 10 minutes the train starts riding again. The Indian guys hanging out of it are still whistling, shouting and flirting with the girls.
It happens 5 times a day in Mumbai.

scene of the accident

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